Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-20
| citizen owes the state his life; and so, OF

citizen owes the state his life; and so, oil
course, that the state owes the citizen
nothing. A pension, therefore, in for
eign countries assumes the distinct form
Of charity, granted to the man who
owes society the service of q lifetime
without regard to any compensation
whatever.
The French Republic grants pen
sions for permanent disability and for
prolonged service-twenty-flve or thirty
years. This last is called retirement
PENSION" and is, after thirty years, Sl20
a year for private soldier and other
sums up to'S20U0 q year for a Msjor-
General. The officer or private is al
lowed TO re-enlist and receives an advance
in his pay. For all active service they
| get time allowances to hasten their ser
vice pension. A pension for disability is
always as great as the service, and if en-
] tirely disabled the soldier can get an in
crease over it of 20 to 80 per cent. A
| widow gets about one-hslf the pension TO
which the soldier himself would have
been entitled.
The French have queer sort OF pen
| sion called the "reform pension" 1t
benefits officers who are "off duty" who
cannot be recalled to active service and
are not entitled to the service pension.
| They are either undergoing discipline or
are Off duty on account of an ipcursble
disability not shown to be chargeable to
| the service.
The pension system of the German en-
pire is the most elaborate in Europe.
If sn officer is discharged after ten
years for being incspacitsted for the
| service he is allowed q pension equal to
one-fourth of his former pay, and one
eightieth additional tor each year of serv-
ice longer than ten years,
ANY officer st sixty can retire from the
army on pension.
Widows pensions are granted only to
those whose husbands have died within
one year of the conclusion of peace, and
| they are good ''for one year after widow
hood and one year after marriage"
Widows of generals are allowed $3.50
yesr; OF colonies and staff officers $500;
of line officers 5000.
| Non commissioned officers and privstes
car claim az invalid pension il disabled
in the service or after g service of eight
years.
After eighteen years. service they are
entitled to pension without disability.
The pension OF privates and non-com-
missioned officers ranges from 81 to Sl2
month.
The child of the deceased officer is al
lowed $50 year as an educational fund
till seventeen years of age, and each child
OF deceased private Or non-coumission-
ed officer is entitled to $3.50 month till
the completion of the fifteenth year.
All applicants for pensions in Spain get
p&y till their claim has been passed on.
Private soldiers receive from 50 to 81 q
month in case of total disability and after
twenty years Of faithful service.
Oficers receive pensions of $500 to
| $1,000 year for entire loss of sight or a
| limb in service.
Soldiers found begging are arrested,
but If their restitution is caused by neg
| ligence of an officer, the officer is sus-
! pended and punished.
All Officers are allowed to retire on half
pay after twenty-five years of faithful ser
vice, and On full pay after thirty-fve.
The pension system in Russia is sort
OF soldiers insurance company. By q
donation of the imperial treasury and 8
taxation of the whole army for q number
Of years, fund of $50, 600, 900 was accu-
mulsted, and from this ell pensions are
paid.
The pension to officers ranges from
| $500 to $l400 q year, and the widow of
an officer killed in war is entitled TO the
| whole Of her husbands pension; in case
of her death, the children.
Officers who are totally disabled re-
celve pension equivalent to their pay.
Pensions are generally distributed by q
committee which, in fixing the amount.
takes cote of the bent ficiary's financial
condition, giving him money in proper
ton to his needs.
The pension machine of the Mongolisns
is very complicated and very peculiar
Under the Chinese code no soldier, dis
a6led or otherwise, has any "right" to q
pension, as the pension depends, not on
any law or regulation, but on the arbi-
trAry exercise of the will of the Emperor.
In fact, the money occasionally received
by disabled soldiers is not called "peu-
sion" at all, but "a mark Of compassion
ate distinction"
The heather Chinese is sharp, ingenious
and frugal. He manages, very nearly, to
make his warriors fight for nothing and
board themselves. The pay of cavalry
soldiers is about 50 so month; of infan-
try, 81, and OF troops on garrison duty
81 % q month.
II an ordinary Infantry soldier is killed
in battle his relatives receive gratuity of
$50 II he has no relations the sum OF 50
is appropriated to pay for sacrifices at his
grave.